This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFSv4.1 fix infinite loop on IO BAD_STATEID error to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: nfsv4.1-fix-infinite-loop-on-io-bad_stateid-error.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0e3d3e5df07dcf8a50d96e0ecd6ab9a888f55dfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:49:03 -0400 Subject: NFSv4.1 fix infinite loop on IO BAD_STATEID error From: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 0e3d3e5df07dcf8a50d96e0ecd6ab9a888f55dfc upstream. Commit 63d63cbf5e03 "NFSv4.1: Don't recheck delegations that have already been checked" introduced a regression where when a client received BAD_STATEID error it would not send any TEST_STATEID and instead go into an infinite loop of resending the IO that caused the BAD_STATEID. Fixes: 63d63cbf5e03 ("NFSv4.1: Don't recheck delegations that have already been checked") Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c @@ -2550,17 +2550,14 @@ static void nfs41_check_delegation_state } nfs4_stateid_copy(&stateid, &delegation->stateid); - if (test_bit(NFS_DELEGATION_REVOKED, &delegation->flags)) { + if (test_bit(NFS_DELEGATION_REVOKED, &delegation->flags) || + !test_and_clear_bit(NFS_DELEGATION_TEST_EXPIRED, + &delegation->flags)) { rcu_read_unlock(); nfs_finish_clear_delegation_stateid(state, &stateid); return; } - if (!test_and_clear_bit(NFS_DELEGATION_TEST_EXPIRED, &delegation->flags)) { - rcu_read_unlock(); - return; - } - cred = get_rpccred(delegation->cred); rcu_read_unlock(); status = nfs41_test_and_free_expired_stateid(server, &stateid, cred); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kolga@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.10/nfsv4.1-fix-infinite-loop-on-io-bad_stateid-error.patch